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Sean asks Mira and Eric if they remember him. They said they do. C-Team rejoices that it worked. But then Delta gives his catchphrase. "Life is unfair. Don't you think?" He's accompanied by Gab.

"Seventeen years ago... A snail traveled down a narrow path in the park. If that snail hadn't been there, perhaps all of you here would've lived a completely different life than you did." You know, aside from Carlos, I think Delta's right. Mira's life would be different, and therefore Eric's. Akane's would be different, and therefore Junpei's. And Sean's life would be different, and therefore Delta's own, and thus, that of his biological family. Okay, that's a bit of a stretch, but you can't say that Phi, Sigma, and Diana aren't tied up in this, because this whole thing is their stupid stable time loop. "Just one small snail. And everyone's lives...even the world...changed."

Eric and Junpei tell him to quit talking nonsense. Diana's glad Gab was safe. Delta says, "Of course we were. You SHIFTed in from another history." Junpei says they should call the cops, and Delta asks what that will accomplish. Eric says it should be obvious; they're throwing him in the slammer. Delta asks what his crime was, and Carlos says Murder. Ah, but he murdered no one in this history! He says as much. He doubts the police will listen. Akane points out the other histories, and Delta reminds them that he can't SHIFT. He only knows anything of those histories because he mind hacked them. In a sense, the Delta they know is a different person than the one before them. Can he be charged for killing someone in another history? If so, this world would be filled with criminals of all kinds. Sean suggests "conspiracy to commit". Carlos agrees; he's betting this history has a bunch of dangerous machines and gimmicks all over the shelter. Delta says unfortunately, he's removed them all. They've slept for quite a while. ...Goddamnit, it's the Sleeping Beauty Problem again! It's not December 31. It's January 1st at the very least. No transporter, no quantum computer...is it sad that I expected that in this history, they were never there in the first place? Because honestly in this series, "they were only there in the history where you lost the coin flip" is more likely than "we just knocked you all out for a long time to remove everything". Remember, K is literally Kyle Klim in two thirds of the timelines and Akane Kurashiki in the remaining third. "Sean is able to move right now because of radio signals from a satellite." They look at Delta, and he asks if they aren't happy. In this history, not a single person has died. Phi and he exist, and there will never be an outbreak of Radical-6. Only a bright future awaits. Isn't this what you'd call a happy end? Junpei reminds him that he himself said that all of mankind will die if time passes and nothing is done. The religious fanatic, the terrorist attack that sparks a nuclear war. Carlos says Delta said he released Radical-6 to kill that person. Delta says that the him before them did not say that, but he can't deny it's true. Radical-6 won't spread throughout the world in this history, so the religious fanatic will live. Phi asks where that happy future Delta talked about was, and Delta is interested that Phi is angry about this. If so, we have a serious contradiction. He had prepared a future in another history where 2 billion would survive. But she decided to jump to this history. She chose a future where humanity goes extinct over one where 6 billion die. Carlos says Delta's wrong; that nothing in the future has been determined yet. They'll shape the future with their own hands. Everyone agrees with him. They vow to stop that future. Delta gives his evil laugh again. He says he told them in another history that his motives were complex. Imagine in another history that none of them had experienced the events that occurred in that shelter.
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